ABC News is investigating one of its producers after seeing evidence that a live camera shot was enhanced by falsely stringing police tape in the background.

Reporter Linsey Davis was reporting from a field in Woodruff, South Carolina in a segment broadcast on 'Good Morning America' on Friday about a missing woman allegedly held captive in a storage container by a registered sex offender.

Behind her was a yellow police tape with the words, 'Sheriff's Line Do Not Cross.'

Yet a wide photograph of the scene shows the police tape, running approximately 30 feet, was actually tied to pieces of ABC's camera equipment.

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ABC News is investigating one of its producers after seeing evidence that a live camera shot was enhanced by falsely stringing police tape in the background. Reporter Linsey Davis (pictured) was reporting from a field in South Carolina when the live shot was spotted

Not what it seems: Yet a wide photograph of the scene shows the police tape, running approximately 30 feet, was actually tied to pieces of ABC's camera equipment.

In a photo showing the doctored live shot, Davis appears to stand next to Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright as she interviews him.

The tape had been place there intentionally for its inclusion in the live shot, sources with knowledge of the matter told CNN Money, who first reported the incident.

Local news station WSPA also captured a photograph of the staged crime-scene shot.

Spokeswoman Julie Townsend said the doctored shot was 'completely unacceptable and fails to meet the standards of ABC News.'

The report's producer has been called back as ABC investigates the incident.

The segment in question aired on Good Morning America on Friday morning during which Davis is seen wearing a black coat in front of the yellow tape.

At the time she was reporting on new developments in a report about Kala Brown, 30, who was found inside a locked container on Thursday.

Brown and her boyfriend, Charles Carver, went missing on August 31.

A tip related to the disappearance of the couple, who live in Anderson, about 55 miles southwest of Greenville, led police to the Woodruff property.

Carver, 32, was still missing and police were looking for him and evidence related to the kidnapping, authorities said.

Todd Kohlhepp, 45, a registered sex offender who works as a realtor, was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping.

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Media had lined up along a fence surrounding the property owned by registered sex offender Todd Kohlhepp on Friday during reports about missing Kala Brown who was discovered alive chained in a box on the property on Thursday

Friday's incident is the second controversy Davis has been connected to this week.

During a broadcast on Tuesday's Nightline, rapper Lil Wayne walked out of a television interview with Davis after he was questioned about his support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Wayne walked out as Davis was following up on his comment to Fox Sports in September when he said there's 'no such thing as racism.'

Wayne said he stands by the comment and doesn't 'feel connected' to Black Lives Matter, and described himself as a 'young, black, rich' man, which he says shows America understands that black lives do matter.

The 34-year-old rapper angrily told Davis he isn't a 'politician' while ending the interview broadcast.

After the broadcast was aired, Wayne later apologized for offending anyone and criticized Davis for some of her questions during the interview.

Friday's incident is the second controversy Davis (pictured) was connected to this week. In a broadcast on Tuesday's Nightline, rapper Lil Wayne walked out of a television interview with her after he was questioned about his support of the Black Lives Matter movement

'When the reporter began asking me questions about my daughter being labeled a b---h and a h-e, I got agitated,' he told TMZ.

'From there, there was no thought put into her questions and my responses.'

'Apologies to anyone who was offended,' he said.

Friday's incident is also not the first time the network has been accused of doctoring a shot.

Back in April, ABC News producer David Fazekas created a fake reservation list for a segment about a reportedly exclusive restaurant in New York.

Fazekas said the chef would not let them see his actual list, 'so I wrote it myself - like a reenactment in a documentary,' the producer told The New Yorker at the time.

'There are services on the Internet that generate fake names,' Fazekas said.